Clearer for preparing frames for cotton and other fibers.



No. 880,007. PATENTED FEB. 25, 1908.

- N. S. BROWN.

CLEARER FOR PREPARING FRAMES FOR COTTON AND OTHER FIBERS.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 11, 1905.

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No. 880,007. PATENTED FEB. 25, 1908*. N. S. BROWN.

GLEARER FOR PREPARING FRAMES FOR COTTON AND OTHER FIBERS.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 11, 1905.

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N. 8. BROWN. GLEARER FOR PREPARING FRAMES FOR COTTON AND OTHER FIBERS.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT.11, 1905.

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NORMA-N senses BROWN, or WI'GAN, ENGLAND. CLEABEB fol PRI PARING IRAMTEB' FOB COTTON Lfin 01 n! flBfiItS.

Patented Feb. '25, 1908.

I .Appllcation'filed September 11. 1905. Serial No. 277.988.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, NORMAN SEDDON BROWN, British subject, and resident of Wigan, county of Lancaster, En land, have invented certain .new and usefu Improvements in Clearers for Pre aring Frames for Cotton and other Fibers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is desi ned to provide a more efficient clearer for the rollers of preparing machines employed in the preparing of textile fibers for spinnin These clearers are affixed to the inside 0 a cover which is hinged or pivoted to cover the rollers so that when the cover is raised the clearers are at the same time removed from the rollers. Hitherto they have been made by fastening a strip of cloth in an endless band over two rods or bars or b pivoting two cloth covered rollers to suitable brackets' The former is objectionable in that the fly or fluff collected from the rollers forms in lumps on the surface and the latter is objectionable in that the fly or fluff collects around the pivot of the rollers and retards or stops their rotation.

My invention consists essentially in constructing the clearer of a cloth covered roller or rollers so attached to the cover as to rest loosely on the drawing rollers and at the same time to be lifted with the cover when it p is raised.

The invention will be fully described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Figure 1. is a front elevation of the rollers of a slubbing or roving frame with the clearers D and cover A in, section. Fi 2. is an end elevation with the clearers an cover in transverse section the latter being in normal working position. Fig. 3. is an end elevati on with the clearers and cover in transverse section the cover being raised and the clearers lifted or removed from the rollers. Fig.4. is a longitudinal section of clearer D. Fig. 5. is a longitudinal section of clearer with a modified construction of pin. Fig. 6. is a longitudinal section showing a modlfied construction of clearer. Fig. 7. is an elevation of clearer with inclined ends to give it a slight longitudinal movement to and fro as it rotates. Fig. 8. is an end elevation of Fig. 7.

' Fig. 9. is an elevation of clearer with scroll sha ed ends for the same purpose.

ide the cover A brackets B are adjustably secured by bolts or screws each provided with pins C projecting inwardly 'or towards one another. The clearers D are cylindrical.

and each formed of a tube or of a roller with tubular ends the ends being open and much wider than the diameter of the ins C. The

ends of the hollow or tubular c carers D are them and their only function is to raise the clearer rollers D wlth the cover A. As the pins are stationary fly or fluff is not liable to accumulate u on them but should such be the case it wil not interfere with the rotation of the rollers as is the case when mounted upon pivots. rods 0' may run through the tubular clearer D, see Fig. 5.

If desired to give to the clearer D a longitudinal movement as it rotates the ends may be made inclined as at Fig. 7. or scroll shaped as in Fig. 9, or otherwise. As the clearer D rotates the one end will first press against the bracket B while the-other end is below the bracket and move the clearer in one direction and then the other end will engage its bracket and move the clearerback again. This construction allows the clearers D to rotate freely upon the drawing rollers without contact with a pin or pivot while providing means for lifting the clearers with the roller cover A and it also allows the clearers D to accommodate themselves to a re-setting of the drawing rollers without requiring to be re-set or adjusted thereto.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to protect by Letters Patent is z-- 1. In a clearer for preparing frames, the combination with the cover A and adjustable brackets afiixed thereto of clearer rollers tubular at the ends, pins fixed to the adjust-.

Instead of pins at the ends a.

the rollers can rotate freely upon the draw- Q pao,oov vzgreaterthahthe-external diemet er-of'the in, diameter a: the" tube, upon which the tubeis to 've a free movement in every direction, mounted, to permit of the adjustment of the so t, at while the clearers can bera-ised'with clearers toa re-sett' of the rollers. without the covers they can'adjus't themselves to arebeing re-set, 'substan'tlally as described. 15 5 setting of the-rollers without being re-set, In witness whereof,I have hereunto s' ned sub'stantiallyas described, and shown." my name 'in the presence of two subscri ing -3YA rollerclearer constructed of a; cylinwitnesses. drical tribe D provided with inclined ends to. I

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'10. combination with pinsO, which project into J. OWDEN OBRIEN,

it of external diameter less than'the internal B. TATHAM WOODHULL. v I 

